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Stem cell therapy trial reverses "irreversible" damage to cornea
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#52How do we know if something is truly irreversible?
Irreversible might not be the thing to wonder about. Can it be changed to a more desired state or result? That has a much more definitive answer: pretty much always 'yes'.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The posted article was about research to cure blindness with stem cells. The top comment implied that such research was being defunded. I asked for an example that was not about defunding research on transgender mice. The only examples provided were for research that was confused with transgender research. So it seems that Doge is not cutting research for curing blindness and the like but only for transgender and som…
They seem to be making broad cuts that will effect all research: https://apnews.com/article/trump-cuts-research-funding-nih-d...
Your article says that Duke University is shutting down research because the government is cutting overhead allocation from 61% to 15%.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
$455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses
but they are not searching for a way to make mice transgender. The point of the research is to model those effects as they might occur in humans, not to figure out how to make transgender mice.
Which effects? Why should a taxpayer care?
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#55From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37204123 (2023) :
> From "Sight for sore eyes" (2009) https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/sight-sore-eyes :
>> "A contact lens-based technique for expansion and transplantation of autologous epithelial progenitors for ocular surface reconstruction" (2009) http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TP.0b013e3181a4bbf2
>> In this study, they found that only one brand (Bausch and Lomb IIRC) of contact lens worked well as a scaffold for the SC
Good to see stem cell research in the US.
Stem cell laws and policy in the United States: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_laws_and_policy_in...
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
but they are not searching for a way to make mice transgender. The point of the research is to model those effects as they might occur in humans, not to figure out how to make transgender mice.
Which effects? Why should a taxpayer care?
Please read for yourself, you're showing ignorance and laziness, which leads us all to believe you're not arguing in good faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
The effects mentioned in the abstract are:
- How feminizing hormone therapy (estrogen and anti-testosterone medications) affects immune responses to HIV vaccines
- Changes in gene expression patterns in immune cells following hormone therapy
- Potential differences in vaccine efficacy and adverse outcomes related to hormone therapy
Why is this important? This research could lead to the ability to create more personalized vaccination approaches that consider hormonal factors between men and women.
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#57holy moly
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where did this bogus "transgenic" narrative come from? And BTW he didn't say "research on transgender mice", he said "making mice transgender"... which is technically incorrect but obvious to me (and, I thought, anyone knowledgeable in the field) that the research involved giving mice hormone therapy. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/fact-check-trump-add...
The ability to turn a study on "the effects of testosterone hormone therapy on breast cancer" into "transgender", into "why are they twisting his words! everyone knows he didn't mean transgender" requires some serious excuse making mental gymnastics. Why are you still trying to convince yourself rather than just recognize maga has gone completely off the rails?
Where did "transgenic" come from?
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#59My mom is 76 and she had a virus ruin one of corneas. I wish this was already a common practice but I doubt she will be able to benefit from this. If your eye is irritated and redness doesn't go away for days - visit your doctor.
Whoa thats wild. Did they identify the virus?
I don't remember details, just it was a virus.